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CHINA MUST ADDRESS GRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS AND ENABLE CREDIBLE INTERNATIONAL
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GENEVA (10 June 2022) – Ahead of the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, a
group of UN experts* today urged the Government of China to cooperate fully with
the UN human rights system and grant unhindered access to independent experts
who have received and addressed allegations of significant human rights
violations and repression of fundamental freedoms in the country.
“Cooperation includes allowing visits by UN Special Procedures mechanisms and
granting full access, particularly to places of detention,” the experts said.
“Strengthening engagement with independent human rights experts and Human Rights
Council mechanisms is crucial to full and transparent enforcement of China’s
human rights obligations.”
Recognising high-level engagement with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
by the Government of China during her recent visit to the country, the experts
stressed the value of constructive dialogue with the Government by all UN human
rights entities. The experts stressed that this engagement does not replace the
urgent need for a complete assessment of the human rights situation in the
country, and especially in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Tibet
Autonomous Region and in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
“The Government of China must address specific and systematic human rights
violations,” the UN experts said, calling on authorities in Beijing to ensure
full and transparent cooperation with the totality of the UN’s human rights
system.
They renewed the calls made in a June 2020 joint statement by 50 UN Special
Rapporteurs and human rights experts, which catalogued concerns about the
treatment of ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the
Tibet Autonomous Region, allegations of excessive force against protesters
including in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and reports of
retaliation against people speaking out about the coronavirus outbreak. The
statement highlighted the need to protect fundamental human rights in China
including freedoms of expression, cultural rights, peaceful assembly and
association, religion or belief, and non-discrimination; to prevent forced
labour in the formal and informal economy, protect journalists and health care
workers; and to promote women’s freedom from sexual violence and ensure sexual
and reproductive health rights are equally guaranteed to all women and girls
regardless of ethnic or religious identity.
“Since 2017, we have repeatedly raised concerns about widespread violations of
the rights of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region (XUAR) on the basis of religion or belief and under the
pretext of national security and preventing extremism,” the experts said.
“Several reports submitted to the Human Rights Council by Special Rapporteurs
also have repeatedly raised these and related issues. Deep concerns also persist
about the rights of religious and ethnic minorities in the Tibet Autonomous
Region and other parts of the country.
“We have yet to see any signs of political will to address the concerns raised,”
the experts added. Recent improvements with respect to the rights of persons
with disabilities shows that progress is possible.
UN human rights experts have previously expressed serious concerns about the
alleged harassment, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and undue
prosecution and sentencing of lawyers and human rights defenders including women
human rights defenders, among other civil society representatives,
business-related human rights abuses and of trafficking for purposes of forced
labour and other purposes of exploitation. “UN Special Procedures experts
continue to voice their concerns over the absence of protection for the right to
privacy, reported use of mass surveillance including in the XUAR, entrenched
censorship and consolidation of anti-terrorism and sedition law applied to Hong
Kong.”
The experts reiterate recommendations made in the June 2020 joint statement,
urging the Human Rights Council to convene a special session on China; consider
the creation of a Special Procedures mandate, a special envoy of the Secretary
General or a panel of experts to closely monitor, analyse and report annually on
the human rights situation in China; and urging UN Member States and UN agencies
to demand that China fulfils its human rights obligations including during their
ongoing dialogues with Beijing.
They emphasized the value of ensuring a consistent United Nations approach to
all States in assessing their human rights obligations and commitments.
“Upholding the same standards and their equal application to all States big and
small is important to maintaining the integrity, credibility and moral authority
of Human Rights Council and UN systems for human rights enforcement around the
world,” the experts said.
*The experts: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and
protection of human rights while countering terrorism; Ahmed Shaheed, Special
Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; Mary Lawlor , Special Rapporteur on
the situation of human rights defenders; Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression; Fernand de
Varennes,Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Clément Nyaletsossi Voule,
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association; Diego García-Sayán, Special Rapporteur on the independence of
judges and lawyers; Livingstone Sewanyana, Independent Expert on the promotion
of a democratic and equitable international order; Melissa Upreti (Chair),
Dorothy Estrada Tanck (Vice-Chair), Elizabeth Broderick, Ivana Radačić, and
Meskerem Geset Techane, Working Group on discrimination against women and girls;
Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Siobhán Mullally,
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children;
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Luciano Hazan
(Chair-Rapporteur), Aua Baldé (Vice-Chair), Gabriella Citroni, Henrikas
Mickevičius and Tae-Ung Baik; Working Group on arbitrary detention, Miriam
Estrada-Castillo (Chair-Rapporteur), Mumba Malila (Vice-Chair), Elina Steinerte,
Matthew Gillett, Priya Gopalan; Working Group on the use of mercenaries, Sorcha
MacLeod (Chair-Rapporteur), Jelena Aparac, Ravindran Daniel, Chris Kwaja; E.
Tendayi Achiume; Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; Fabián Salvioli , Special
Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of
non-recurrence; Gerard Quinn, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with
disabilities; Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural
rights; Ana Brian Nougrères, Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy;
Elżbieta Karska (Chair-Rapporteur), Ms. Fernanda Hopenhaym (Vice Chairperson),
Ms. Anita Ramasastry, Ms. Pichamon Yeophantong, members of the Working Group on
Business and Human Rights; Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary
forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; Marcos A. Orellana,
Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally
sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes; Victor
Madrigal-Borloz, Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and Koumba Boly
Barry, Special Rapporteur on the right to education.
The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of
the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent
experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s
independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific
country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special
Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not
receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or
organization and serve in their individual capacity.
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(+41.22.917.9449; michelle.erazo@un.org).
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